Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-08
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
Cold Wave Experiences-The Citrus Fail
Immigration and Tobogganing.
CHICAGO, December 81. 1886.

EDS. RECORD UNION l write you from
the land where the blizzard bloweth and
the cold wave waveth. The Signal Service
man about every six days, predicts a cold
wave; then, if it don't come, he waits two
days, and again makes the same prediction,
for he knows by sad experience that he is
bound to hit it surely the second time
Even ordinary winter weather here would
send all your people shiyering to their
homes but, great Scott when cold wave
comes, then it is simply appalling. And
vet the people here seem to love it or
rather, they endure it, and call it a healthy
climate. l happened to meet gentleman
a few days since employed as Superintend-
ent OF Rose Hill Cemetery, the last resting
place of the aristocratic dead of Chicago
who informed me that little more than
is 000 bodies we're buried in the cemeteries
of this city annually, from which | infer
it is a healthy place to emigrate from.
These cold waves | mention seem to take
a ground swell, as it were, when they reach
tChicago, and it always gets the benefit of
the surge.
A snow storm set in early this morning,
and the snow has been falling all day until
lnow, 10 clock P. NJ, the sky is becoming
visible, and one of the cold waves predicted
is lust reaching us. AT times during the
day the snow-storm almost reached the
proportions of blizzard. The snow, under
the feet of pedestrians, gives out peculiar
gritty sound as it is tread upon. The car
wheels of the street cars ring as they roll
over the frosty rails. and the poor miser-
able, wFetched passengers huddle closely
together to keep themselves from freezing
in the heatless cars. | have patent heater
I IN, hut col v-ar "
from Il as often as any warmth.
THE CITRUS FAIR
IOpened this evening bad night for it, as
so many people are socially engaged, keep
ing the end of the old year, and watching
for the new, that few people were in attend
ance Considering the fact that the cars
laden with the fruit exhibit arrived during
the prevalence of cold wave" ii is re-
markahle that the fruit is in any condition
at all to exhibit but owing to the indie
fatigable energy of Messrs. Gregory, Platt,
Morrison and the other gentlemen in
charge, it makes a creditable exhibit. 1t
requires much talk TO convince people that
this beautiful fruit is the product of North
ern California, so extremely difficult 10 it
to eradicate first impressions, as people
have universally the idea that only at Los
Angeles can oranges be grown. | explain
the matter in my feeble way, and am re-
joiced to find that l am understood occa-
/ sionally.
All the gentlemen who are here from
California are fully competent to explain,
and think cid the same as | did-explain-
ing to the people that everything exhibited
came from Central and Northern Califor-
nia. | believe the fair will be q success,
and will well repay all concerned IN the
matter Tor the expense attending it.
! IMMIGRATION.
The tide of immigration is setting to-
wards the valley of the Sacramento, as in
the golden days when thousands were
lured tLiiher by the precious metal.
I Other thousands are and will be
| lured there by the golden fruits ex-
hibiied here. which prove the miidness of
our climate and the certainty of success. l
am in receipt OF letters from all parts Of
the country daily. jnquiring about our
| State and Of the class that is most inter
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